Display-rack for rugs.



Patented sept. la, |900.

DE WITT C. MAIN.

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DISPLAY RACK FOB BUGS. (Appiiction med ma. 12, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

DE WITT C. MAIN, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA.

DISPLAY-RACK FOR RUGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 658,041, dated September 18, 1900.

v Application filed March 12, 1900. Serial No. 8,212. (No model.)

- skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to display -racks which support in a suspended position rugs and other articles which for the purposes of 3 sale it is desired to display in the most con-- veuient manner; and the object of my invention consists in providing a simple, cheap, and durable structure whereby any -nurnber of rugs or similar articles may be suspended, resting close together and taking up but small space and any one of which can be displayed with little or no trouble.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 shows the guide-rails, which are adapted to be suitably secured to the ceiling of the store or building where my device is to be installed. Fig. 2 is a side view of a portion of one of the guide-rails, showing the brackets by which the same are secured to the ceiling and one of the rollers from which -by means of a hook the rug secured to a stri p or bar is suspended. Fig. 3 is an end View of two of the guide-rails and of one of the rollers which travel upon said rails and upon which are hung the hooks which suspend the stick or bar to which the rug or other article is secured. Fig. 4 is an end View of my complete device, showing the' two sets of guide-rails secured tothe ceiling, the rollers traveling upon and between said rails, the hooks suspended from said rollers, and the rug carrying bar or strip suspended from the hooks.

A A and A A represent the two sets of guide-rails. Each of these sets consist of two rails or strips of any suitable material separated a small distance from and located parallel with each other, said strips or rails being held in position a small distance below the ceiling by brackets B, fastened to said strips A A and to the ceiling by means of screws or other suitable means. Said two sets of guiderails secured to the ceiling, as described, are located any desired distance from each other, running, however, parallel with each other.

Cis one of the rollers which travels upon the guide-rails and from which the rug is suspended. Said rollers are preferably constructed in two pieces, which piecesare ceutrally perforated and .joined by means of a pin D, as shown in Fig` 3. Two such rollers are employed foreach rug which it is desired to suspend therefrom, one upon each set or pair of guide-rails, the two flanges C C2 facing each other moving between the two guiderails and the reduced portions C3 O4 bearing upon the tops of said guide-rails. space between the two roller-pieces and catching over. the pin D, I place a hook'E, and the opposite roller upon the other pair of guiderails is likewise equipped. A strip or bar F is made to catch over the hooks on the rollers by means of eye screws or rings G, and to this strip F the rug or other article may be secured in any desired manner.

When in practical use, one end of the guiderails will usually terminate at a wall, said wall forming a stop for the rollers. Any

number of pairs of rollers provided with the hooks and supporting the strip or bar F with the rug suspended therefrom may be thus mounted on said guide-rails and when not in use they may all be rolled back, the rear one against the wall or stop and the others as far as the next roller will permit. Thus a large number of rugs may be placed close together, occupying but a smallI amount of space, and are yet ready to be displayed in a simple and effective manner. By simply grasping one 0f the rugs and drawing it forward the two rollers through which the rug is thus suspended willroll forward upon the guide-rails and the rug may be drawn as far forward as desired. Any number of rugs may be handled in likemanner. The practicabilityand utility of this device for displaying large articlessuch as rugs, curtains, and the like-will now be apparent.

In the- I do not wish to limit my invention to the IOO the construction of the rollers, which would not be a departure from the scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I now claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. In a display-rack, the combination of two sets of guide-rails, each set consisting of two rails, adjacent and parallel to each other, means for securing said sets of guide-rails horizontally and parallel to each other, the rollers or pulleys C adapted to travel upon and between said guide-rails, a bar or strip from which is adapted to be suspended or hung rugs or similar articles; said bar or strip provided with means for loosely connecting it with two of said rollers, one of said rollers to travel upon one set of guide-rails and the ot-her roller upon another set of such guide-rails for the purpose of sustaining the bar or strip with a rug or similar' article suspended therefrom substantially at right an` gles to the guide-rails.

2. In a display-rack, the combination of sets of guide-rails, brackets or hangers to support and sustain said sets of guide-rails near the ceiling, the rollers or pulleys C adapted to travel upon and between said guide-rails, a bar or strip from which is adapted to be suspended or hung rugs or similar articles: said bar or strip provided with rin gs or hooks secured in its upper side, S-shaped hooks connecting said bar or strip with two such rollers, one of which rollers travels upon one set of guide-rails and the other roller upon another like set of guide-rails, for the purpose of sustaining said bar or strip and rug` or similar article suspended therefrom, in a position at right angles to the sets of guiderails, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto a'lixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DE -WITT C. MAIN.

Witnesses:

T. A. MURPHY, A. G. SaMPsoN. 

